Name Monster

This is my name monster!  His name is Jeremy, he has boxing gloves on his hands, an ear warmers on his ears, and a tie with hearts on it.  His nose it crooked and blue because he broke it.  He is very proud of his teeth which is why he is smiling so big. 

To make the name monster you fold a piece of paper the long way and then write your name all the way across the paper.  If you have a short name, you might have to put you middle and last initial.  Then cut around your name but, do not cut the folded edge.  Open up the paper and decide which end is the top and start coloring!

Identity Picture

This is an identity picture.  I drew this for an art class that a help teach at a little kid co-op.  You start by folding the paper into 16 squares then you put your name all scrambled around and start filling in the other squares with things you like.  Some of mine are goats, 4-H, Justin Bieber, ultimate frisbee, and reading.  

Some of the things the kids chose were favorite kind of ice cream, light sabers, dirt bikes, not the color pink, and fishing.

How To Float A Cow With Balloons

This is a picture I drew for a class I help with at a little kid co-op.  This picture shows combining primary colors.  First you draw an animal, they were studying animals of Minnesota so I choose a cow, or what ever you want, a bus, a house a monster, a shark etc.  The three balloons are the primary colors, red, yellow and blue.  Where they overlap each other is where the color blending comes in .  The yellow and red make orange, the red and blue make purple and the blue and yellow would make green.

The kids liked it and they had a lot of fun drawing the animals.  Most of them choose pigs oddly enough.  There are all boys in the class so their drawing were let's just say...interesting.

Altered Notepads!!!

For the Altered notepad you need: A notepad, paper, glue, paper cutter or scissors, and decorations.

The making

  

Step one:  Cut the paper to the size of your notepad

 

Step two: Put on stickers or whatever you have to decorate your notepad with. 

 

Step three: Glue the paper to both or one side of the notepad. 

 

Now you have a beautiful notepad to write all your important info in.  Enjoy!

 



Clyde the dragon!

This weekend I was looking up crocheted animals on pinterest and I found this cute little dragon!  He is so cute!  I named him Clyde and he is just a baby dragon so he does not breath fire.  Clyde also has a little brother who is blue and very cute.  He has not been named yet.  I think am going to make lots more of these little guys! 

                  This pattern was pretty easy.  The things that were the hardest was the starting of the head and connecting the feet, otherwise it was splendid.   You can find the pattern here.    I added some of my own touches to him.  I used a bigger hook for Clyde so he is bigger, I also used polar fleece instead of felt.  So for his ears I had to put two pieces of fleece together with two tooth picks in between so they will stand up and I also made them more of a triangle.  I put his tummy on upside down and smaller from the one in the pattern.  His horns are not a cone shape like the originals.  They also used embroidery floss I just used yarn for his mouth and fang and the lines on his tummy are not floss ether.  The arms I put half way down the body instead of right by the head.
When you put the tail on you should put it a little higher up then mine is because he will stand but not that well and falls easily.

Sewing camp!!!!!

Sewing camp!!! Friday night and Saturday was our county's sewing camp. On Friday night we made potato bags for a community service project. You would think sewing a potato bag would be easy right? Wrong! I had to rip out a lot be cause I sewed it the wrong way the first couple of times. They didn't have a lot of potato bag fabric cut out so some people made wheelchair caddies for the people in the nursing homes to sit on. Saturday was the day you made what ever you signed up to make. This year made a messenger bag and my brother made a quilted pillow. My brother cut his finger on the rottery cutter when he was cutting his squares for his pillow. He has been kinda sick all week so he was sniffing and coughing all day. When we were leaving he started coughing except this time he threw up. We had just finished talking to someone from our club so she got us a Ziploc bag for us.

Stress Pumpkin

This is a pumpkin stress ball. To make a pumpkin stress ball follow these steps.

Things you will need:

If you want a pumpkin get orange balloons, or if not, any color balloon will work, flour, funnel, a stick to poke flour if it gets stuck in funnel, and a spoon or just use your hand.

1. Blow up your balloon so it is not so stiff.

2. Put the funnel in the spout of the balloon.

3. Start putting in flour, poke with stick if the funnel gets clogged.

4. When it's as full as you want it just take out the funnel and tie it off.

5. If your making a pumpkin stress balloon draw on a face.

and there is your stress pumpkin!!!!!!

Football fish fun!

My brother plays flag football on Saturdays. He read about paper footballs in the comic Fox Trot and and looked up how to make them. We made lots of these on Saturday. I got the idea to make a paper football fish after looking at the footballs. Here are the directions I use:

1. Get a sheat of paper and fold and cut it in half lengthwise.



2. Fold the paper you just cut in half and start folding to the left in little triangles six times.



3. Fold the part that is left into an arrowhead shape and slip it in the pocket of the triangle. Make three footballs.


4. Draw an eye on both sides of one triangle

5. Draw scales on two of the triangles with a nice color.

6. Use black, and the color you used for scales, to draw lines on the leftover triangle on both sides for the tail.



7. Tape the triangle with eyes to the other one with scales.




8. Tape the tail point to point with the body.




9. Do the same thing for two fins but smaller, tape one on each side.

10. There is your fish.

Candle

Yesterday at our 4-H meeting we made a candle out of a little milk carton, melted wax, ice cubes, and some string. The first one my brother made broke so he had to make a new one. My candle is purple but my brothers is red.

Recycled wallet

For Christmas from Santa I got the American Girl Tear Up This Book. After I looked it over I made a wallet out of a magazine page. Here is the directions.

Things you need: old comic book or magazine, clear packing tape, scissors, ruler, and a pencil.

1. Cut out a 7 by 6 from the comic book or magazine.

2. Cover both sides of the paper with the clear packing tape trim the extra tape with the scissors.

3. Fold up 2 1/2 inches long ways.

4. Tape the sides up.

Here is a picture of the one I made!

5. Put some money in it and fold in half.

A tapestry tells a thousand words

Yesterday for history we learned about Herold the Unfortunate, and saw a picture of the tapestry of the battle between him and William the conqueror. We only saw a little bit of it at a time because it is 20 inches tall 230 feet long! There are 35 parts and all of them are made by hand, they only have 8 different colors of thread in them!!! Here is a tapestry that I colored of Ride the Ducks, a tour we went on in Branson, MO. The first part is going in to the water, the second is driving on the lake, and the third is driving out of the water.

Shrinky, shrinky, shrinky.

This is a picture of some shrinky dinks I made. I got a shrinky dink kit for my birthday so I made some and it was so fun!